Trump Transition

‘Days of Thunder’ — How Trump Plans to ‘Jump Start’ His Agenda In Just Days

By Jasmine Wright and Reese Gorman

Jan. 20, 2025
Trump Looks to Build His Border Wall in His First Wave of Executive Orders

By Reese Gorman and Jasmine Wright

Jan. 19, 2025
The Biden Administration Is Pushing Out Big New FDA Rules for the Trump Administration to Deal With

By Margaret Manto

Jan. 18, 2025
Under Trump, the CDC Director Job Description Could Include Closing the U.S.-Mexico Border

By Margaret Manto

Jan. 18, 2025
JD Vance Is Bringing His Senior Senate Staff to His VP Office

By Reese Gorman

Jan. 17, 2025
Kristi Noem Previewed Trump’s Immigration Moves at Her Confirmation Hearing

By Casey Murray

Jan. 17, 2025
Lee Zeldin Won’t Say How He Plans to Target Biden’s Climate Legacy

By Anna Kramer

Jan. 16, 2025
Trump’s Housing Pick Stuck to Broad Strokes in His Senate Confirmation Hearing

By Amelia Benavides-Colón

Jan. 16, 2025
Trump Is Preparing for an Immigration Executive Order Blitz. So Are His Opponents.

By Casey Murray

Jan. 16, 2025
Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About Scott Bessent’s Work With George Soros

By Claire Heddles

Jan. 15, 2025
The Senate Is Giving Pam Bondi a Loyalty Test

By Jose Pagliery

Jan. 15, 2025
Hegseth’s Hearing Signals the End of Bipartisanship in Defense Secretary Confirmations

By John T. Seward and Shifra Dayak

Jan. 14, 2025
‘Brother, I’m Pulling You Along’: Republicans Go All Out to Lift Pete Hegseth

By John T. Seward

Jan. 14, 2025
Health Officials Want a ‘Seamless’ Transition on Bird Flu Preparedness. The Reality Isn’t So Certain.

By Margaret Manto

Jan. 14, 2025
Housing Advocates Don’t Know What to Expect From Trump’s HUD

By Amelia Benavides-Colón

Jan. 13, 2025
Pete Hegseth’s Fight Against ‘Wokeness’ Could Reshape Military Schools

By Torrence Banks and Shifra Dayak

Jan. 10, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Meets With Democrats, With Fingers Crossed

By Margaret Manto

Jan. 9, 2025
Hiring Trump Loyalists Is Easy. Shrinking the Federal Workforce Isn’t.

By Anna Kramer

Jan. 9, 2025
Tammy Duckworth Says Pete Hegseth Won’t Meet With Her Ahead of His Confirmation Hearing

By Shifra Dayak

Jan. 9, 2025
California Democrats Worry Trump Will Block Fire Aid

By Samuel Larreal

Jan. 8, 2025
Ron DeSantis Isn’t Asking Congress for Advice on His Senate Pick

By Claire Heddles

Jan. 8, 2025
Marco Rubio Says He’s All In on Trump’s Foreign Policy Vision. Is There Room for His Own?

By Haley Byrd Wilt

Jan. 8, 2025
Trump Suggests He Might Try to Force a Takeover of Greenland and the Panama Canal

By Helen Huiskes

Jan. 7, 2025
Republicans Aren’t Actually Sure Mass Deportations Are a Political Winner

By Casey Murray

Jan. 7, 2025
‘Fear Everywhere’: The Haitian Community Prepares for Trump’s Agenda

By Calen Razor

Jan. 6, 2025
Kamala Harris Oversaw the Certification of Her Own Defeat

By Jasmine Wright

Jan. 6, 2025
Donald Trump Will Be Sentenced in the Hush Money Case

By Jose Pagliery

Jan. 3, 2025
Trump Says He Won’t Sign a Federal Abortion Ban. His Administration Has Ways to Restrict Abortion Anyway.

By Oriana González

Jan. 3, 2025
This Trump White House Already Looks Radically Different Than the Last

By Jasmine Wright

Jan. 2, 2025
Dr. Oz Celebrated Obamacare for Years Before He Was Against It

By Katherine Swartz

Dec. 24, 2024

RFK Jr. Says His Meetings With Senators Are Going Well. But He’s Missing Some Crucial Support.

By Margaret Manto

Dec. 20, 2024
Trump Pitched a Labor-Friendly GOP. Labor Advocates Want to See His NLRB Picks First.

By Em Luetkemeyer

Dec. 20, 2024
Donald Trump Signed a Law to Improve Presidential Transitions and Is Now Sidestepping It Entirely

By Claire Heddles

Dec. 20, 2024
Some Republicans Want Elon Musk to Literally Run the House

By Haley Byrd Wilt

Dec. 19, 2024
Trump Is Souring on Mike Johnson and May Not Back Him in January

By Reese Gorman

Dec. 19, 2024
The Feuds Fueling Trump’s Quest for Vengeance Against Jack Smith

By Jose Pagliery

Dec. 19, 2024
Josh Hawley Says RFK Jr. Is ‘Open’ to Restricting Abortion Pill Access

By Oriana González

Dec. 18, 2024
Is It Even Possible for RFK Jr. to Make Raw Milk Safe?

By Margaret Manto

Dec. 18, 2024
RFK Jr. Wants to Shake Up Agriculture. Republican Senators Say They’re Not Too Concerned.

By Nuha Dolby and Margaret Manto

Dec. 18, 2024
Republicans Wave Off the Heritage Foundation’s Pressure Campaign on Trump’s Cabinet

By Ben T.N. Mause

Dec. 18, 2024
Lawmakers Are Flocking to Join the DOGE Caucus but No One Knows What They’ll Do There

By Mark Alfred

Dec. 17, 2024
Trump Wants State Democrats’ Cooperation. State Democrats Are Prepping for a Fight.

By Calen Razor

Dec. 17, 2024
The Postal Service Says It Will Keep Mailing Abortion Pills — For Now

By Oriana González

Dec. 16, 2024
Trump’s New Pick for the FTC Will Likely MAGA-fy the Agency

By Claire Heddles

Dec. 16, 2024
Republicans Who Shot Down Biden’s Cabinet Wish Democrats Would Support Trump’s

By Ben T.N. Mause

Dec. 16, 2024
Daniel Penny Will Be JD Vance’s Personal Guest at the Army-Navy Game

By Reese Gorman

Dec. 13, 2024
How Far Can Granola Conservatives Get in a Lunchables GOP?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Ben T.N. Mause

Dec. 13, 2024
Tim Scott Is Set to Change Plans at the NRSC. Some Trump Allies Are Still Skeptical.

By Reese Gorman and Alex Roarty

Dec. 12, 2024
No Labels Supporters Believe This Is Their Moment. They Just Can’t Say Exactly What That Means.

By Shifra Dayak

Dec. 12, 2024
How Pete Hegseth Turned His Nomination Around

By Reese Gorman

Dec. 12, 2024
Republicans Aren’t Worried That Trump Actually Wants to Imprison His Critics

By Haley Byrd Wilt and Em Luetkemeyer

Dec. 12, 2024
Democratic Senators Are Hungry for Food Reform. Can They Stomach RFK Jr.?

By Margaret Manto and Shifra Dayak

Dec. 11, 2024
Will Donald Trump Dump Watergate-Era Protections at the DOJ?

By Jose Pagliery and Claire Heddles

Dec. 11, 2024
RFK Jr. Doesn’t Trust 5G. In the Trump Administration, He’d Have Power to Upend It.

By Margaret Manto

Dec. 9, 2024
Rep. John Duarte Eyeing Trump Administration Job After Narrowly Losing His Seat

By Katherine Swartz

Dec. 6, 2024
‘Who the Hell Knows’ — The Trump-Adams Bond Has New York Democrats Antsy

By Violet Jira

Dec. 6, 2024
Trump May Blow Up His Trade Deal, but Even Some Democrats Think the Pact’s Labor Protections Will Survive

By Shifra Dayak

Dec. 5, 2024
Ron DeSantis Is Positioning Himself as Pete Hegseth’s Replacement Pick

By Reese Gorman

Dec. 4, 2024
Senate Republicans Acknowledge Pete Hegseth Has a Lot to Explain

By John T. Seward

Dec. 2, 2024
Trump and Linda McMahon Are Poised to Reshape Higher Education

By Violet Jira

Dec. 2, 2024

Where Trump’s Band of Health Nominees Converge and Split With RFK Jr.

By Margaret Manto

Nov. 29, 2024
Republicans Are All In on Trump’s New Trade War

By Haley Byrd Wilt and Reese Gorman

Nov. 26, 2024
One Major Obstacle to Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise: Local Law Enforcement

By Casey Murray

Nov. 26, 2024
House Republicans Celebrate Another One of Their Own Getting Nominated for Trump’s Cabinet

By Reese Gorman

Nov. 25, 2024
Trump’s Sentencing in New York Hush Money Trial Is Delayed Indefinitely

By Jose Pagliery

Nov. 22, 2024
Obamacare Gave HHS a Lot of Power. Democrats Say They Never Expected RFK Jr.

By Oriana González

Nov. 22, 2024
Why the Energy Industry Doesn’t Think Trump Will Unravel All of Biden’s Climate Legacy

By Anna Kramer

Nov. 22, 2024
Trump Nominates Pam Bondi for Attorney General After Matt Gaetz Withdraws

By Ben T.N. Mause and Jose Pagliery

Nov. 21, 2024
Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Is in Trouble. Republican Senators Are Letting the Process Play Out.

By John T. Seward

Nov. 21, 2024
Matt Gaetz May Have Just Killed the Ethics Report, but Court Filings Paint a Damning Picture

By Jose Pagliery

Nov. 21, 2024
Matt Gaetz Might Not Be Allowed to Come Back to Congress Without Another Election, Even If He Wanted To

By Claire Heddles and Reese Gorman

Nov. 21, 2024
Donald Trump Has Plenty of Other Allies Who Can Wage His Legal Wars for Him

By Haley Byrd Wilt, Tinashe Chingarande, Ben T.N. Mause, Helen Huiskes and Katherine Swartz

Nov. 21, 2024
Matt Gaetz Ends His Bid to Be Trump’s Attorney General

By Katherine Swartz, Ben T.N. Mause and Reese Gorman

Nov. 21, 2024
RFK Jr. May ‘Prioritize’ Banning Some Infectious Disease Research

By Margaret Manto

Nov. 21, 2024
‘She’s Gone Away’ — Tulsi Gabbard’s Old Friends in the House Are Baffled by Her Nomination

By Shifra Dayak

Nov. 21, 2024
What Will Trump’s Militarized Mass Deportation Look Like? Republicans Don’t Really Care.

By Haley Byrd Wilt, Casey Murray and John T. Seward

Nov. 21, 2024
House Ethics Committee Deadlocked on Releasing the Matt Gaetz Report

By Violet Jira and Reese Gorman

Nov. 20, 2024
Senate Democrats Want the Full FBI File on the Matt Gaetz Investigation

By Helen Huiskes and Mark Alfred

Nov. 20, 2024
Trump Is Calling Senators on Behalf of Matt Gaetz. It’s Not Going Well.

By Reese Gorman

Nov. 19, 2024
Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Second Drug-Fueled Party in 2017

By Jose Pagliery

Nov. 18, 2024
Lina Khan Is Probably Out at the FTC. She Could Be Replaced by a ‘Khanvert.’

By Claire Heddles

Nov. 18, 2024
Farm-Friendly Republicans Insist Trump’s Tariff Agenda Will Be Just Fine

By Nuha Dolby

Nov. 15, 2024
Republicans Are Starting to Ask a New Question: Do They Need to Be More Like Trump to Win?

By Alex Roarty

Nov. 15, 2024
The Senate Tried to Trump-Proof NATO. Now They Hope Their Effort Worked.

By Helen Huiskes

Nov. 15, 2024
Everybody Loves Elon: GOP Lawmakers Dismiss Musk’s Conflicts of Interest

By Haley Byrd Wilt and Ben T.N. Mause

Nov. 15, 2024
Alabama Republicans Have a Top Priority Now That Trump Is Coming Back: Space Command HQ

By Torrence Banks

Nov. 14, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Trump’s Pick to Run the U.S. Health System

By Margaret Manto

Nov. 14, 2024
Gaetz’s Antitrust Positions Align With Progressives. They Just Don’t Trust Him.

By Claire Heddles

Nov. 14, 2024
Matt Gaetz Will Test the Limits of Senate Republicans’ Fealty to Trump

By Casey Murray and Evan McMorris-Santoro

Nov. 14, 2024
Matt Gaetz Resigns From His House Seat After Trump Attorney General Nomination

By Reese Gorman

Nov. 13, 2024

The Chaotic Scene When Senators Learned Trump Nominated Matt Gaetz for Attorney General

By Riley Rogerson, Ben T.N. Mause, Katherine Swartz and Nuha Dolby

Nov. 13, 2024
Trump’s Pete Hegseth Nomination Has Left Republicans Confused On and Off the Hill

By John T. Seward

Nov. 13, 2024
‘He Has No Chance’: Matt Gaetz’s Ethics Probe Takes Center Stage After Attorney General Nomination

By Jose Pagliery and Reese Gorman

Nov. 13, 2024
Will a More Diverse Trump Coalition Mean a More Diverse Administration?

By Calen Razor

Nov. 13, 2024
John Cornyn Is Fighting to Be GOP Leader. He May Also Be Fighting for His Political Life.

By Casey Murray

Nov. 12, 2024
Democrats Are Not-So-Secretly Thrilled About Marco Rubio’s Potential Nomination

By Haley Byrd Wilt

Nov. 12, 2024
New York Judge Delays Decision on Trump Conviction by Another Week

By Jose Pagliery

Nov. 12, 2024
Newsletter: #NeverTrump in the Age of ForeverTrump

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Riley Rogerson and Ben T.N. Mause

Nov. 12, 2024
House Democrats Look for a Winning Message After Loss to Trump

By Mark Alfred and Samuel Larreal

Nov. 12, 2024
Joni Ernst Privately Expresses Interest in Becoming Trump’s Next Secretary of Defense

By Reese Gorman

Nov. 11, 2024
Trump’s Cabinet Picks Put a Further Strain on a Shrinking House Majority

By Haley Byrd Wilt and Reese Gorman

Nov. 11, 2024
Heritage Foundation Comes Out of Hiding

By Ben T.N. Mause, Evan McMorris-Santoro, Riley Rogerson and Katherine Swartz

Nov. 11, 2024
‘What a Joke’: Heritage Staffers Are Only Laughing About Project 2025 Now That Trump Has Won

By Ben T.N. Mause and Helen Huiskes

Nov. 11, 2024
GOP Lawmakers Hope Trump Can Keep Them From Tearing Each Other Apart Again

By Haley Byrd Wilt

Nov. 8, 2024
What GOP Dreams May Come?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Katherine Swartz and Riley Rogerson

Nov. 8, 2024
Mitch McConnell Just Wants to Be a ‘Regular’ Senator Standing Athwart Trump’s Isolationism

By Haley Byrd Wilt

Nov. 6, 2024
An Unconstrained Trump Likely Won’t Face Much Pushback From Congress in His Second Term

By Haley Byrd Wilt

Nov. 6, 2024